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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Agri-Pulse’s Lydia Johnson caught up with California Rep. Jim Costa Thursday night to talk about his challenge to Georgia Rep. David Scott for the top Democratic slot on the House Ag Committee. Costa repeatedly stressed that he could be a “strong voice” for the minority.
Ongoing partisan battles over nutrition assistance and Inflation Reduction Act funding have received all the attention but there are plenty of other policy disagreements in the approaches that leaders of the House and Senate Agriculture committees are taking on a new farm bill.
Congressional Republicans are weighing how to rein in the soaring cost of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and may use a recent GAO report to argue for restricting how USDA determines future updates.
USDA has appointed Meryl Harrell as Deputy Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment and Terry Cosby as chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, and Margaret Zeigler has been tapped to serve as the interim president of the Supporters of Agricultural Research Foundation.
